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Al-Rabghūzī, The Stories of the Prophets

Qiṣaṣ al-Anbiyā’: An Eastern Turkish Version (Second Edition)

A first edition of
The Stories of the Prophets, written in Khwarezmian Turkish by the judge (
qāḍī) Rabghūzī and completed in 1311, was published in 1995 by a group of authors. For the second edition
H.E. Boeschoten and
J. O’Kane have thoroughly revised both the text edition and the translation volume on the basis of additional manuscripts and reviews of the first edition.

The Stories of the Prophets (
Qiṣaṣ al-Anbiyā’) is a traditional genre in Islamic literature. Such a work contains the
res gestae of the biblical prophets and stories about other personalities and peoples up to the birth of the Prophet Muḥammed. Exceptionally,
Rabghūzī’sStories also contains a sizable account of the life of Muḥammed and his family. The work is a fundamental source both for Turkic linguistics and for Islamic Studies.

Biographical Note

Hendrik Erik Boeschoten (1950) is Professor of Turkology at the Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität in Mainz. He has published on topics of Turkic linguistics and language contact, besides a number of text editions and translations.

John O’Kane (1940) has been publishing since 1972 translations of Arabic and Persian works to do with Sufism, as well as several volumes in the field of Islamic Studies translated from German into English.

Readership

All interested in various aspects of Turkology and of Islamic Studies.